On May 12, 2:58*am, Martin Brown
wrote:
Showing where their claims conflict
with the known laws of physics is the way to do it and not by appeals to
authority.

Of course it is. However, to avoid being taken in in the first place,
people should take the claims of mavericks with a few extra grains of
salt. This is not to say that a grain of salt should not be used even
for what the authorities say.

John Savard